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Deadly plane crashes

Take a look at two deadly plane crashes, one in San Francisco an one in Alaska.

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Updated: 8:36 AM EDT Jul 8, 2013

Deadly plane crashes

Take a look at two deadly plane crashes, one in San Francisco an one in Alaska.

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Updated: 8:36 AM EDT Jul 8, 2013

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WEBVTT I AM VERONICA WHITE, CAUGHT,,WXII 12 NEWS.OH MY GOD.OH MY GOD.IT'S AN ACCIDENT.YOU ARE FILMING IT.LORD HAVE MERCY.IMAGINE SEEING THAT.THE DRAMATIC CRASH LANDING OFSAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT.THE PLANE TOOK OFF IN SOUTHKOREA.205 PEOPLE SURVIVED A CRASHLANDING.TO 16 YEAR OLDS WERE KILLED ANDMORE THAN 80 PEOPLE INJURED.THE DEBRIS FROM THE CRASH ISSTILL LITTERING THE RUNWAY.THE PILOTS WERE FLYING TOOSLOWLY WHILE APPROACHING THEAIRPORT AND TRIED TO ABORT THELANDING SECONDS BEFORE CRASHING.REPORTS SAY THE PRIVATE ONLYHAVE 43 HOURS OF EXPERIENCEFIGHTING THAT KIND OF PLANE ANDWAS PLANNING FOR THE FIRST TIMEAT SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT.A SPOKESWOMAN SAIDTHE PILOT HADLOAN FOR NEARLY 10,000 HOURSDURING HIS CAREER.SOME PILOTS SAY THEY DO NOT KNOWIF IT WILL EVER FLY AGAIN.JEAN ROSS SAID HELOOKED OUTHIS WINDOW INTO SOMETHING WASWRONG.THE IMPACT WAS SO POWERFUL.IF I DID NOT HAVETHIS STRAPAROUND MY CHEST, I WOULD HIT THECEILING OF THE PLANE IS HOW HARDIT WAS.I HIT THE GROUND ONE MORE TIME.FROM THAT MOMENT, MY MIND WASBLANK.I THOUGHT I WAS DYING.UP PASSENGERS SAIDTHE PILOTWAS SCREAMING AND TOLD ALL LOOKPEOPLE TO EVACUATE.PEOPLE AT THE ALASKAAIRPORTCRASHED.AUTHORITIES SAY THE PLANE WASENGULFED IN FLAMES BEFOREFIREFIGHTERS COULD REACH THESITE YESTERDAY.YOU CAN SEE THE SMOKE BILLOWINGFROM THE CRASH SITE IN THEPICTURE.

Deadly plane crashes

Take a look at two deadly plane crashes, one in San Francisco an one in Alaska.